It was good. DAMN good.
Helm's Deep - I can't fault it at all. For sheer bloody action and heroism it tops everything I've seen in any movie ever. Cinematics - sound - everything perfect for the tension and... well, it's good.
Faramir and co. - I missed the scene in which Faramir finds his brother's body in the boat, and takes the horn. I would have liked to see it; it would introduce Faramir far far better... as well as explain why he was so god damn surly all the time. Apart from that... neat. I suppose they had to show Osgiliath so they could go back there in the next film...
Ents - excellent. A nice twist in having Pippin 'trick' Treebeard into seeing the devastaion Isengard had wrought - a nice surprise.
Did anyone think Gandalf's freeing of Theoden from Saruman's hold was a bit 'The Exorcist'?
Tancred - off to see it more times than he saw Fellowship